Recycled Paper Christmas Tree

I love this easy recycled paper Christmas tree. Use this simple Christmas tree craft as a fun way to help your toddler work on their scissor and sorting skills. I also love that we were able to reuse a few pieces of junk mail.

Materials to make your own Recycled Paper Christmas Tree:

Junk mail – we used the ads for Christmas trees.

Blue construction paper

Scissors

White paint

Q-tip

Glue

Set out a small tray of white paint, blue paper and a Q-tip. Have your child dot the white paint onto the paper to mimic snow. Kids love new painting techniques, and Q-tip painting is always a hit at our house!

While the snow is drying, have your child cut long strips from the junk mail. These strips will serve as the branches of your recycled paper Christmas tree.

Help your child sort their branches from longest to shortest. Once all the strips are arranged, glue them onto your snowy background. We added a star and a few ornaments to our tree as well. They were also cut from the junk mail flyers.

I love how easy these trees were to make. It always makes me happy when we can turn something that was destined for our recycle bin and turn it into art.

I love to recycle stuff too, especially all those junk mail that are in abundance during this season! Thanks for this wonderful idea! Will be doing this with my 4 year old!
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Another great recycled craft! I have been keeping tabs on a bunch of Christmas tree crafts since we will be camping at Christmas and thus will not have a traditional tree. I want to do some small Christmas tree crafts for the boys to bring with us and to make while we are camping.